some bad news on the jfs (it could be a random problem (not replicable/reproduceable), it could be because of using fsconvert, or it could be a problem w/ jfs - my guess is that it was caused by the conversion - there is perhaps something that we forgot to do/check as a last step - but I have no idea what that could be...)

OK. It is working again, but there is apparently some unexpected/undesirable behavior here. It is trying to mount the CDROM as XFS, and that is just not going to work. This seems to happen whenever an audio cd is in the tray at boot time.

I'm concerned that during conversion something was left in the wrong state.

mindbender, do we need to mention this on the XFS hda3 conversion article page?

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mindbender - Moderator

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Quoting: davy_gravy

what did you do to fix it?

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davy_gravy - member

Simple to fix/workaround. I just make sure that there is no CD in the USB/CDROM drive when it boots. But why should a CD (an audio CD) in the drive trigger an attempt to mount something as XFS, when there is no XFS system on the hard drive anymore.

Not simple to figure out why it happend. Very unexpected that it happened. It *is* odd.

Has lb_worm seen anything like this? Anyone else who is using XFS or JFS, or has used convertfs seen this type of behavior?

I suspect that one of my apps (Mediaripper or one of its dependencies) may be an unwitting accomplice in this...

Do you think if I had a line in the fstab for the USB/CDburner it might keep it from happening? But, that would only make it try to mount the CD to the specified mount point...?

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FOLLOWUP : this was all resolved by uninstalling XFSPROGS. The problem went away completely.